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LEADER: 02060mam a22003254a 4500
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008 020129s2002 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2002020604
020 $a1585672246 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm48951410
035 $9AVE7177CU
035 $a3377639
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dOrLoB-B
041 1 $aeng$hspa
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPQ8520.14.E45$bB313 2002
082 00 $a863/.64$221
100 1 $aDelgado Aparaín, Mario,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85006412
240 10 $aBalada de Johnny Sosa.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002026879
245 14 $aThe ballad of Johnny Sosa /$ca novel by Mario Delgado Aparaín ; translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Hampsten.
260 $aWoodstock, NY :$bOverlook Press,$c2002.
300 $a122 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"The Ballad of Johnny Sosa depicts an ordinary man trying to live out his dreams in a dreary provincial town in central Uruguay while suffering in the tentacles of military oppression.
520 8 $aEvery night, Johnny Sosa, a poor, young, black musician, sings melancholic soul music in the small bar in the town's brothel, dreaming of a life beyond his confining world, and for a few hours each day ignoring the secretive and oppressive military regime - a dictatorship not so much seen as felt - that has taken over his country.".
520 8 $a"He attracts the attention of the local military leader who uses Sosa for his own political ends and, for a while, Johnny is permitted to sing and to imagine that he will perform at the national festival, where discovery and success may well be waiting for him. However, as his friends mysteriously start to disappear, Johnny begins to realize the price of his dream, and he must decide if he will pay it."--BOOK JACKET.
700 1 $aHampsten, Elizabeth,$d1932-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81100718
852 00 $boff,glx$hPQ8520.14.E45$iB313 2002